2017.119.81.2: Playful Conversations
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.119.81.2
- People
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Benoît Audran the Younger, French (Paris 1700 - 1772 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- Playful Conversations
- Other Titles
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Title: Les entretiens badins
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359040
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.4 × 25.7 cm (9 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: B. Audran Scul.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: LES ENTRETIENS BADINS
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: Haec scalptura ejusdem est magnitudinis ac / Tabula inventa et Picta à Watteauo. // Gravée d'apres le Tableau original peint par / Watteau, de même grandeur.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 95
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.119.81.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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